Do everything with a mind that lets go. Don't accept praise or gain or anything else. If you let go a little, you will have a little peace; if you let go a lot, you will have a lot of peace.

Every experience is an opportunity to practice awareness.

The goal of the Buddhist path is not to add something to our existence but to discover something that has been there all along.

The dharma is not in the books. If you want to find the dharma, look in your mind.

In meditation, we're not trying to get rid of thoughts but to recognize their true nature.

The Buddha's teaching challenges us to master the art of living, to live in a way that leads to the extinction of suffering.

Don't be a bodhisatta; don't be an arahant; don't be anything at all. Being something makes you suffer.

Everybody has the light of Buddha within, but they don't look for it.

To carry yourself forward and experience myriad things is delusion. That myriad things come forth and experience themselves is awakening.

Right View is not just a matter of intellectual understanding but of seeing things as they really are.

The path is the goal. Every step of the journey is the journey.

The heart of the path is quite simple. No need for long explanations. Give up clinging to love and hate, just rest with things as they are.

True peace is found not in the absence of experience but in the clear seeing of all experience.

The nature of everything is empty and clear, and the mind is beyond both existence and nonexistence.

Misery ceases to exist when we stop reacting to sensations.

The mind has first to be attuned to the Unconscious.

The essence of the spiritual journey is the uncovering of what is always already present.

As long as you seek for something, you will get the shadow of reality and not reality itself.

Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves - slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future.

The most fundamental aggression to ourselves, the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves, is to remain ignorant by not having the courage and the respect to look at ourselves honestly and gently.

Recognize the emptiness of all phenomena, but do not become attached to emptiness itself.

The grass is greener where you water it.

In the beginning, nothing comes, in the middle nothing stays, in the end nothing goes.

For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them.

The true hero is one who conquers his own anger and hatred.

Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay.

A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

The world is its own magic.

Mindfulness is attention to life, and life itself is sacred.

When things fall apart and we're on the verge of we know not what, the test of each of us is to stay on that brink and not concretize.

Faith is the firm foundation, diligence the supporting pillar, and wisdom the roof of the house of practice.

The Four Noble Truths are not merely theoretical propositions but a framework for understanding and transforming our experience.

Generosity generates its own enthusiasm. We don't have to force ourselves to be generous; we just need to start.